Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Weesa All Gonna Dry!

Does everyone remember when California was going to enter an epic centuries long drought? It was 10 months ago. Seriously. September 2016.

Here is Bill Nye "The Science Die":
In 2014, Bill Nye said this while calling people who disagree with him names:

I deal with this on a daily basis. Most of the good rainfall data we have is less than 100 years old. Trying to extrapolate the "100 year rainfall event" design criteria for dams and levees from 60 years of good data is pretty laughable.

Well, the sacred 2% level in cpI was not reached. Alas, alac, the goddess wii be unhappy! Also we will run out of money in Oct r so. The tweets Wil set the world on fire, if the nukes don't. Ryan saved us before, maybe he will again..

Combining the two most recent posts. In anticipation of the rains starting early I ordered OEM replacement wipers for the mighty mighty Volvo. The two in front are different lengths and the rear blade is not standard. Besides it's a Volvo. Was going to be more than $80 or $18 from China with free shipping. Let's see if they work in a few weeks.

It always astounds me that we seek 2% erosion in the value of everything all the time. The policy should be as low as possible as long as not negative. Call what we have a victory and start lowering the balance sheet.

Now he's talking about going after Venezuela. They don't deserve it,.but don't have nukes. Can't they be allowed to crawl out of their problems themselves? If thWY need feeding can't we just send food?

Hey, I have a thought. The economy is doing quite well, except for young black males that Trump doesn't care about anyway. Can't he claim that this is all his doing, even if not true ( he doesn't care about that), and emphasize the greatneness of that. Also infrastructure is part of his agenda, and nearly everyone likes that and in many places we do really need it. So flog infrastructure, which will reduce unimployment even more, with bonuses for hiring young black men, 18 to 25. Foreign countries need not apply for contracts. This would give all of us a win. No walls included. Give Trump a success, so he doesn't want to blow up the world. Enforce the non immigrant laws we have on the books right now, to make sure Americans get hired. That just might get is infinetesmally close to the illusive full employmentm

Why did O make nice with Iran, Cuba? Sending food and aid only subsidized the dictator and doesn't help. Allowing mass immigration takes the pressure of the dictators. Why shouldn't we do some thing instead of ignoring problems in the beginning before they become a real threat Like Iran and NK? Maybe hiding under tables taught us some thing just like the fear of the draft did for many young men like me.

Disagree, Clinton Stupidity and ignored till it ends up in Trumps lap. Guam is the first threat but half of the US is in sight of his ICBN Nukes. Guam is disposable? NK dough boy started this not Trump.

Simple question if you where in control. When Crazies like Iran and NK obtain nuke war heads and ICBMs, is the homeland (USA) safe or threatened. Especially when they make open threats to attack us. What would you do?

In Dawafornlizia, nobody would do anything to the middle east if someone country wanted, we'd leave them alone to do it. Our hackers would be better than their hackers. We'd feed Venezuelans. Our Hackers would have done sometHong against nk long ago

Sorry to insert my name in there. Not worthy. Just almost finished the 3rd UU speech. The really amazing part is how similar the problems and solutions were, then and now. Except the Founders were much smarter, better read, educated and thoughtful. Etc etc. They had manners too.Can you think of one single person in this much bigger united states who could match Washington, Jefferson, Franklyn, Madison, the Adamses, the Morrises. You might find somebody equating with THomas Paine. I suppose Franklyn would be a famous scientist or tech guy. Why?

To be fair to moderns what they had to learn to know everything is but a fraction of what you need to learn to be merely well versed today. More than a third of the planet was untouched by humans in their time. There was no biology past farm animal breeding. Electricity one of the fundamental force had just been discovered.

Look at me. A nothing yet a week doesn't pass when someone doesn't remark about the depth and breath of my experience. And I don't even rate. The generalist is dead. The aggregator is dead. All that is left are con men with specialized knowledge that can be monetized.

Spot on Rob the founding fathers where brilliant men of their time. Today the complexities of the world accomplishments and problems would not apply to their train of thought. Simpler world with out nukes and ICBMs, politicians with personal profits and insane brides. The world gets smaller every day making problems bigger.

Errr, the polls then made personal profits and Morris the Financier, has specific permission to do so. They were inventing something new politically. A musket can make you just as dead as a nuke, but not so many at one time. They knew different kinds of complexities. People call Australian aborigines primitive. They are not. They just know different things. The world sure as hell was not simpler then. All the political manunvering was like a 4 dimensional game of chess. Speaking of which, China just said if NK launches and we retaliate, China won't protect NK.

It isn't unfair or racist but the Australian Aborigines specialized to the point of lacking the general skills to adapt to such rapid change as they were subject to. Just plain old lapped in the contest. Sad and regrettable and there may come a time when their line proves a survival advantage. Just not now.

All of the crazy things I have done I have only rang my bell a couple of times, mildly. Felt it for a few days being off balance and slow. Nothing big. I have known guys who have wrecked race cars, motorcycles seem unstable for a long time, months in some cases.

Culture class is generally ugly and the word primitive is some what debatable. Yesterdays event was the result of race baiting of two haters.

Ya... Took me a couple of months to "fully" recover, with vertigo being the last symptom to resolve. Fully was in quotes cuz I'm not sure that my attention span will has recovered yet in over two years. Maybe I'm just noticing it more...

Don't take any analgesics or blood thinners without a doctor's permission. It can make bleeding in the brain worse, though I suspect that most of that has healed already. Tylenol is best in this case, but with minimal or no alcohol. BTW, alcohol is another no-no

It is true that long dry spells happen and you never know when they start or how long they will. Preventive measures such as desalination plants are desirable, not foolish. You could pump it back into the ground from whence it came. Silly me

I checked with God at the turn at the local course just now. Keep in mind He was in a good mood having birdied the tough Par 4 Eighth. He sayeth that time spent fishing or golfing, biking, sailing doth not count against thy time on Earth. Why is God playing the back nine starting so late? Well besides "the office" being so busy on Sunday mornings He obviously qualifies for the senior discount after 2PM.